The Best Work You May Never See

This PSA takes us back to Bethlehem in the year zero as men walk through an outdoor marketplace to find holiday gifts for children. Among the options are incense and just giving some gold so the recipient can buy whatever he or she wants. Supers then advise us to "end a 2,000-year tradition" and to...

Kathi Prosser of Partners Film , Toronto, directed this spot which features real SickKids hospital patients, families and staff singing along to Roy Orbison's "You Got It." Established in 1972, SickKids Foundation raises funds on behalf of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and is the...

Marc Klasfeld of RockHard Films directed this music clip featuring Cee Lo Green who gets out of his luxury convertible during a snowstorm to find shelter in the home of the Muppets. What ensues are various comedic interactions with the Muppet characters as they all sing "All I Need is Love." DP...

Daniel Cohen of Aardman Animations directed for BBDO Proximity, Dusseldorf , this 20-second spot which takes us on a journey with a small ball of cotton as it navigates through an extravagant world, which is made entirely of beautiful fabric. The cotton ball travels through a winter wonderland made...

This animation web video introduces us to a little girl named Emily who loves school, her friends, music, reading, playing in the outdoors, and swimming in the pool. Then one day she could not close an eye and had to go to the doctor. Diagnosed with a brain tumor, Emily winds up spending most days...

User-generated video can be a dart board but DDB Canada hit the bull's-eye, culling down 65 hours of submitted footage to two minutes in which Canadians share their Canada. The 35 Millions Directors initiative received those 65 hours of footage from more than 8,000 individual video and photo...

Ozan Biron of The Embassy , Vancouver, B.C., directed this stop motion and paper craft-inspired computer animation spot that looks to engage and educate viewers about the value of oil and energy pipelines to Canada's infrastructure and economy. This piece takes us through the history of Canada and...

At the beginning of the year, the British Heart Foundation's "No Kissing" made SHOOT 's "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery, featuring actor Vinnie Jones as a gangster character somewhat reminiscent of his past role as Big Chris in the movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . He then...